The hard-left party France Unbowed said it will suspend discussions to nominate a future Prime minister, accusing the Socialists of sabotaging negotiations.
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00:00Will the left-wing coalition, the New Popular Front or the NFP, that won the most seats during France's legislative elections, finally agree on a name for the future Prime Minister?
00:11The alliance composed of the hard-left France-unbowed Réliphie party, the Socialists, the Greens, as well as the Communists, has been squabbling over who to present as candidate to lead the future French government.
00:24On Monday afternoon, the France-unbowed, the hard-left party from the alliance said that they will be suspending all discussions blaming the Socialist party for sabotaging the negotiations.
00:37This comes after the Socialists vetoed on Saturday the candidacy for Prime Minister of the former MP, Huguette Bellot, who had overwhelming support from the France-unbowed as well as the Communist party.
00:52And the first public session of the French National Assembly, that's the lower house of French Parliament, is supposed to be held on Thursday.
01:00So the left-wing coalition is really hoping to find a candidate before this date.
01:06And in this tense political climate, well, this Monday morning, the Court of Auditors presented its annual report on France's public finances.
01:15And the report of this country's budget watchdog describes the situation as worrying due to the fact that there was the COVID-19 pandemic as well as extremely high inflation.
01:28And the Court of Auditors warns the French government that the situation could further worsen due to the unstable political climate that is unprecedented in France's modern-day history.
01:40Sofia Katzenkova, reporting from Paris for Euronews.